Building a CARDBOARD acoustic

[DUY1337GUITAR]

I posted this on the ReRanch forum and thought I might as well share here, too.

So I found this lovely blog on this guy's homemade acoustic guitar build:
Building an Acoustic Guitar in your Kitchen

And then I found a retired luthier building an acoustic from 2000 popsicle sticks:


And then all of a sudden, out of summer boredom, I got this crazy idea of building an acoustic guitar out of cardboard. I'm probably not the first, but I never saw it on the vast internets yet.

I started about 2 weeks ago with a lot of doubt, but now I'm halfway and it's looking pretty good. I'm not going to post a video with all the photos I have until I'm finished, but I'll show you guys the main ones. I really hope this will turn out successful

Don't be deceived, that thing holds up pretty well. I'm hopefully working on it more today, and I'll post more pics later.

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

walked about 4 miles total today to the bus stop to get to the mall and Guitar Center with my buddies. Spent $8.99 on nylon strings... I hope it will be worth it.

Anyways, photos

Headstock is huge, like I said

Bridge and nut

Attaching the headstock

Gluing the dowels together to form the base of the neck

If I'm able to, I'll post more pics tonight. Otherwise, I'll see you guys after my long-awaited vacation :3

 

[tekkadon d]

thats looking mighty fine =]

 

[Justin Bailey]

this is gonna be friggin awesome

 

[Hollowway]

Wow, that's innovative!! Thanks for all the pics, too!

 

[dreamermind]

somebody loves icecream very much

 

[Sebastian]

That's a great idea !

Keep the pictures coming

 

[Kapee]

Haha, looks great.

Moar pics

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

So sometime between 1-2 AM in the morning, I took out the nylon strings to see how long they are. I was planning to string it through the bottom end of the guitar where I would add a piece of wood to make it look like in the pic below:

However, the strings are too short... but after a few minutes of thinking, I solved my problem. I will make something that will be similar to this (but not exactly):

I sketched out my plan before going to bed because now I'm on vacation. Can't wait to be back and work on the guitar again

 

[jats]

love it!

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

Alright! Finally home from vacation. The WiFi at the place I was staying wouldnt let me go on YouTube... and it was also slow.

Tomorrow, I'm going to get back on track and start building. I may have some pics to show you guys, I'll check my cam after I take a break.

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

I was sawing a slab of wood with my coping saw and my arms are tired... so I'll just take a break and post some photos.

More later

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

Who wants more?

How's it looking now?

 

[Hollowway]

Have I mentioned that you're a mad scientist? I fully support your madness!

 

[jymellis]

this is my dads buddy. he sells these box bass guitars as a kit

Bogdon Music

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

Have I mentioned that you're a mad scientist? I fully support your madness!

bahaha, heck yes I am. Look at what my first attempt at painting a guitar looks like:





Since then, I couldnt stop the cravings of building things.

 

[DUY1337GUITAR]

this is my dads buddy. he sells these box bass guitars as a kit

Bogdon Music

I remember seeing a video of something similar, surprised about about how well abundant cardboard can sound

 

[Sebastian]

Great work so far

 

[BigPhi84]

Hey, you're that Viet from youtube, right? I remember seeing your finishing vids on youtube about 6 months ago, and saw the Vietnamese Newspaper underneath the guitar body. I also remember reading your name, and at first I thought it was DIY1337GUITAR for Do-it-yourself-Leet-guitar, but then I did a doubletake and realized that it was dUy. I've heard that there are a lot of Viets in Oregon. I wonder why. Nice Cardboard concept. I'll be following this thread.


Always drinking that Yeo's Sua Dau Nanh,
Phi ^_^

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Good stuff, keep going!